Remaster Of The Original 'Nier' Announced For April 2021 Release

This morning, Nier fans finally received an update on the remaster of the original Nier game, titled Nier Replicant ver. 1.22474487139 because of course it is, in a lengthy showcase streamed this morning.

The showcase, titled "We Have A Decent Amount of New Info," ran 50 minutes and featured a gameplay demo and a release date trailer, which clarified that the game would come out on April 23rd, 2021 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. This took about five minutes of the showcase; the rest of it featured director Yoko Taro, dressed in his Emil head, and others bantering and talking about statuettes and other neat Nier-related memorabilia.

For those familiar with the Nier series, the stream's quirkiness was to be expected. The highly successful Nier: Automata, introduced a wide audience to Taro's bizarre artistic vision with four mandatory campaigns that often ran through the same levels from different perspectives and featured 26 different endings, each one corresponding to a letter of the alphabet.

While Automata was mind-blowing for its bold choices, the original Nier: Replicant was arguably even bolder, with a remarkably intricate and melodramatic story, dramatic gameplay shifts, and a memorable cast of characters with backstories almost never represented in Triple-A games. The original wasn't a critical success but developed a cult following which allowed for the success of Automata.

The showcase lead Nier-related topics to trend on Twitter, as fans enjoyed the crew's antics and expressed their excitement for the remaster.